Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-11-04
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But" says some woman, "there ia /.
norrld creature that has SO injured me TINT
ram Il than make up with her would die
nrst." Well, sister, you may take your
cholce-for one or the other Il will he
your complete pardon of her or Gods
eternal Punishment of you. Butt saws
some man, that fellow who cheated me
out OF those goods, or damaged nv bns;.
I ness credit, or started that lie about me in
w. .ne newspapers, or by his perfidy broke up
~. .iy oomestic happiness, forgive him cam
h .s., INN | will not" Well.
De at peace with God till YOU are nj naoca
win man. Feeling as you now do. Won
would not get SO near the harborof Heayen
as to see the light-ship. Better lenve tbot
man with the God who said: "yenoconco
Is NINE. will repay" You may sov. 81
VII, make him sweat for that vet, I will
make MN squirm. mean 10 pursue him
10 ,he death, but you are damaging yonr.
seii more IMAM you damage him and Won
are making Heaven for your own soul nm
mposslolllty. If he will not be reconciled
six hours it will be shutdown. The d,b,;os
Will bloom against the western sky. some.
where between this and that take n shovel
ana bury the old quarrel Mt least six feet
deep. Let not the sun 90 down on vonr
wrath" sout
! But" YOU saw, II have more than 7 con
Dear; too much is put upon me. and / nm
not to blame ii am somewhat reyenotni
ana unrelentlng." Then l think of the
il''lc child at the moving Of some goods
from store. The father was putting
some ROLLS OF goods on the childs arm.
! n .M nhter RNarkage. and some one said,
Il t. 4
much ought not to be put upon her, When
the child responded, Father knows how
much can carry" and God, our Father.
WI, not allow TO much imposition on his
children. In the day of eternity it will he
found You had not one ANNOYANCE ,oo
many, not one aspiration too many, not
one outrage too many. Your Heavenly
Father knows how much you can carry
! Again: We should not let the sun 90
down on our wrath because it is of little
importance what the world says of YOU or
does to you when You have the atfluent G cd
OF the sunset as your provider and defender,
People talk as though it were fixed snec.
tacle OF nature and always the same, But
no one ever saw two sunsets alike, and if
the world has existed 6,COO wears there
have been about 2, 1900 sunsets, each of
them as distinct from all the other pictures
IN the gallery of the sky as litian's Last
SUPPER" Rubens' descent from the
Cross" Raphael's TRANSPORTATION" and
Michael Angeles LAST Judgment" are
distinct from each other. If that God of
such infinite resources that He can put on
the wall of the sky each mig hit more than the
Louvre, and the Luxembourg, and the
Vatican, and Dresden and Venetian galler-
les all in one is my Coo and YOUR God.
our provider and protector, what is the use
OF our worrying about any hur..ss;,, ant.s.
onlsm? IT we are mist ,.erpreied. the co..
OF the many co!o.ru Sunset can MI ~
ilgh' co!oE on our action. If he can afford
! 10 hang such masterpieces over the outside
wall Of Heaven and have them obliterated
i in ali hour, he must be very rich in re-
sources and Can put us through in safety.
II all the garniture of the western heavens
at eventide is but the upholstery of one of
the windows of our future home, what
small business for us to be chasing enc
mics! Let not this Sabbath's sun 90 down
upon your wrath.
Mahomet said: "The sword is the kew
OF Heaven and hell, q drop of blood shed
is better than fasting, and wounds in the
day of judgment Respondent as vermilion,
and odoriferous as musk" But, my
the opposite of that to be true, and that
the sword never unlocks Heaven, and that
He who heals wounds is grfter than he
who makes them, and thatn!Sn the sq7ne
ring are two keys: Gods forgffAhess Of us
and our forgiveness of enem{eRRM and these
two keys unlock Paradise. u w. j..
And now wish for all of y9uaT reed aiful
sunset in your earthly existR6ceall With
some of you it has been aedois bay of
trouble, and with others of y6lHin chill be
far from calm. When the SUM- at 6
o'clock it was the morning of ySBthi and
fair day was prophesied, but h& ne time
the MONDAY of midlife had come ,9pd the
ock of your earthly existence lad Struck
2, cloud racks gathered and teRhesfs bel
lowed in the track of tempest. But as the
evening of old age approaches pray God
the skies may brighten and the clouds be
piled up into pillars as of celestial temples
to which you go, or move as with mounted
cohorts come to take YOU home.
And as you sink out of sight below the
horizon may there be radiance of Chris
tian example lingering long after you are
gone, and on the heavens be written in
letters of sapphire, and on the waters in
letters of opal, and on tho hills in letters
of emerald: "Thy sun shall no more go
down, neither shall thy moon withdraw
itself, for the Lord shall be thine everlast-
ing light and the days of thy mourning
shall be ended" So shall the sunset Of
earth become the sunrise of Heaven.